Many Years of Marriage

Today my husband and I celebrate our 46th wedding anniversary.

Interesting how it works, we still feel 35 on the inside but our physical stature has changed a great deal since that day we got married. Thankfully as the outside began to falter, our hair turned gray and our limbs are more feeble than so many years ago, our spiritual well being has increased much more than any blessing of health or wealth.

We were engaged when I was 16 and my husband was 20. We were both very religious but not walking with Christ. Now we walk with Christ and are no longer "religious", our love is far different from the days when love was all about appearances and personal enjoyment, the love we share now is because of Christ, not only about ourselves. Our joy is always there even through the hard things, our hope never leaves either, there is always God's comfort within us.

So many people wish they could be young again, We would never want to be what we were then, there was nothing back there that we miss.

When we gain wisdom, very little else of this world entices us, in fact, just being fed, clothed and in a warm house is enough. Adventures are over, they are no longer needed as they once were when we were young and thought they held anything for us.

We look back on the adventures, barely able to remember what they felt like, but we look to the wisdom we gained, we will never forget that, It carry us through to eternity with greater hope in the future than any past adventure could ever afford.

Forgetting the past, forgetting the adventures, but never forgetting the wisdom that came from God and changed us into a new creation while growing us into Spiritual beings trapped in this physical body, that one day we will be delivered from, even having a new one.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 "19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies."

Whom Do We Obey?

We have been rejected by family members for not attending the weddings of remarriages or wedding showers of remarriages of family members. The freedom we have in Christ not to have to cave into the demands of the culture, following their sin, to be able to be accepted by them, is far greater than any acceptance of man we think we need.

There are many people who are angered when they see that we will not endorse divorce and remarriage. Even though God clearly says that remarriage is adultery, the culture has embraced and defended remarriage as legitimate, but it is not only not legitimate, it is a sin against God and a sin against the person the divorced individual is marrying.

When someone divorces and remarries they are helping their new partner to commit a sin, they not only are accountable for their own sin in it, they are accountable for making their brother or sister fall into sin.

Divorced people are commanded to remain single or be reconciled to their spouse, it's not a suggestion to be ignored, it is a command from God.

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 "…10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. 11 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband."

God commanded a divorced person to remain single or be reconciled because the "shall become one" bond is not severed by divorce, God used a spiritual glue to bind two people in marriage it cannot be severed by a piece of paper by the law of the land, it is only severed by death.

1 Corinthians 7:39 " 39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord."